Privacy questions surround use of high-tech camera drones

(May 2, 2013) A small, unmanned helicopter-type aircraft rose high above Main Street last weekend where it hovered, scanned the horizon with a GoPro camera, and captured images of the antique-car parade and the Daffodil Festival activities below.

The photos were quickly uploaded to Facebook by the operator of the equipment, and the capabilities of a new technology were on full display for all to see, from its potential to display Nantucket from a different per­spective to the possibility it could violate the privacy of island residents if in the wrong hands.

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